Orson Scott Card

Elements of Fiction Writing

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Vivid and memorable characters aren't born: they have to be made
This book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, yank and sift good characters out of the place where they live in your imagination.
Award-winning author Orson Scott Card explains in depth the techniques of inventing, developing and presenting characters, plus handling viewpoint in novels and short stories. With specific examples, he spells out your narrative options—the choices you'll make in creating fictional people so “real” that readers will feel they know them like members of their own families.
You'll learn how to:
Draw characters from a variety of sourcesMake characters show who they are by the things they do and say, and by their individual “style”Develop characters readers will love—or love to hateDistinguish among major characters, minor characters and walk-ons, and develop each appropriatelyChoose the most effective viewpoint to reveal the characters and move the storytellingDecide how deeply you should explore your characters' thoughts, emotions, and attitudes
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307 printed pages
Original publication
2010
Publication year
2010
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Quotes

  • Ольга Тоболеваhas quoted5 years ago
    A rule of thumb: Choose the simplest, clearest, least noticeable technique that will still accomplish what the story requires.
  • Ольга Тоболеваhas quoted5 years ago
    JEOPARDY
    Jeopardy is anticipated pain or loss.
  • Ольга Тоболеваhas quoted5 years ago
    They’re around you all the time. You can’t get through a day without running into hundreds, even thousands of ideas for characters or stories.

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